Alexa's Response...

Those that link to me have little or no traffic, either.
So if I have no traffic how did these "small timers" [not my definition] -- find me? Blog Post Reference

And, two -- they ignore link farms and search engines. Why isn't a blogroll on a blog considered a link farm? A high premium is given to those bloggers with regard to ranking for a blogroll and the reciprocal links generated. No matter if no one clicks. It's the "links in" factor.

Case In Point:
I belong to the DC Bloggers list. Both of my qisoftware.com hosted blogs are listed. Is this a link farm? I see no difference in the sidebar of a blog with a blogroll and this list of bloggers -- but without the blog posts.

Also, search engines are very important in obtaining traffic. For Alexa to ignore or give search engine results a lower rating than some of these blogroll links in my opinion is a mistake. I can be associated with a term like "Blogger Calendar", which gives me page 1 results, either in the first or second slot position when queried.

Do you know how many people use Blogger and have seen other blogs with calendars?

Sorry Alexa, it is a mistake to ignore this.

By the way -- I see your spider in my statistics all the time...

Alexa response --

Thank you for contacting Alexa Internet.

Our Links In data come from our crawl of the Web. When you are aware of
links pointing to your site and we don't show them, there are a few
possible explanations. We might not have crawled and indexed the links
yet--we update them every two to three months (about the amount of time
it takes to complete a crawl and get the data indexed and live in the
Service). We also choose not to show links pointing in from link farms
or other such search engine placement mechanisms. Finally, if there are
links pointing in that exist on pages that have no traffic, we do not
show them either--we prefer to show links in that are actually being
clicked. Because there are many sites on the Web that show many more
links in to sites, our users appreciate our emphasizing quality over
quantity.

The best way to make sure Alexa knows about and will update your links
in is to actually follow those links to your site with the Alexa Toolbar
visible. We then know not only that the link exists, but that our users
are actually clicking it.

Please note: The Alexa Traffic Rank is in no way related to Links In.


Thank you for your interest in Alexa.

Best Regards,
Alexa Internet Customer Service

I could have gone on and on but decided not to... It's a gorgeous morning and I am going out to enjoy it.

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